An intraluminal leiomyoma of the small intestine causing invagination and obstruction: A case report

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1079-1081

  Sunamak, Oguzhan ^a   Karabicak, Ilhan ^a,b   Aydemir, Ismail ^a   Aydogan, Fatih ^a   Guler, Emel ^a   Cetinkaya, Serap ^a   Korman, Mustafa Ugur ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Invagination; Leiomyoma; Obstruction

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INVAGINATION; LAPAROTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR;

AGED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTUSSUSCEPTION; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; LEIOMYOMA;

EID: 33847751541     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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